Group photograph of about 125 members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in the courtyard behind Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA. Helen Louise Riddle is standing in the next to last row within the center arch, centered between the ladies who are 3rd and 4th from the right in the last row under the center arch (representing the Sigma Chapter of the AKAs). A flower-covered sign reads "Boule 1932." Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is a Greek-lettered sorority, the first established by African-American college women on January 15, 1908 at Howard University. The membership is for college-educated women. Helen Louise (Wheeler) Riddle was a founding member of the Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at the University of Southern California (1922), and the first African American woman to graduate from USC Law School (1927). She married John Thomas Riddle, a USC graduate and USC football player.
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African American Greek letter societies Kerckhoff Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Riddle, Helen Louise, 1904-1956
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